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The Broken Vows by Catharina Maura

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mahy27's review against another edition

hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.75

This was my least favorite book from the Windsor series. My girl Celeste could not catch a break. Why did everyone hate her so much? She literally watched her best friend die right in front of her eyes believing she was the reason why. I understand her friend was mentally ill but why wouldn’t she trust her only friend whose last words were that she was cheated on? Everyone only cared about Zane and his feelings, what about Celeste? Imagine being surrounded by that much hate. She didn’t deserve all that. Also the book never explains the break up. We just get little snippets here and there. And it was very, very repetitive. I kind of hoped that when the 3 years was up that she’d walk away, but shocker she doesn’t. Zane is officially the worst windsor and Lexington is right behind him with his rude ass comment. Hopefully the next two books are better. 1.75/5

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lostinfictionaluniverse's review against another edition

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emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This would have been a 5 star if the book ended after first 35 chapters. It was actually so so good until then. And it went downhill from there. It was unnecessarily so long and most of the parts in second half was not really needed. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Also I have seen many reviews that made such a big deal about the heroine grovelling and I was ready to get pissed when I read it but it wasn't even that bad like they said. She just was trying to correct the mistakes she made. Ofc Zane wasn't any better either. He didn't work as hard as her. He made her life hell out of spite. But I guess I get where both were coming from.

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javiyani's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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rencollins's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I am so conflicted it. In some ways, I absolutely loved this story. And in other ways, it pulled out such an intense feeling of hatred from me. At multiple points in the middle I considered DNFing, but at times I had to hate read through because I just had to know how it ended. It's certainly a unique way to get to a happily ever after.

VERY dark themes.

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kassidyrw's review against another edition

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Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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ariana_m's review against another edition

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emotional tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I have liked the books that I have read in this series so far but this was so bad. First of all, I hate when the girl has to grovel. The past timeline was rushed, the writing didn't flow, the present timeline was worse. The book doesn't actually start until the 40% mark. Another thing, what the author was trying to write about was a conservatory not an observatory. An observatory is for space and and conservatory is for plants. A quick google search would have told her that. I feel like she watched "Queen Charlotte" and ran with it. I did not like Zane and Celeste in this book at all. They were both toxic and very insecure and jealous. I strongly disliked the relationship. Also at the risk of sounding like a prude, I disliked how much sex was in this. Like...are yall incaple of having a conversation that doesn't allude to sex or ends up with you guys having sex??? I'm sorry but the smut was too much. It was happening every other chapter and sometimes every chapter. I didn't like this book at all.

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mayawata_'s review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

While these characters eventually made up, throughout the majority of the book it felt entirely hopeless. And while that was probably intentional, I still felt like they should’ve just called it. And this was one of those books that had no right to have that much spice, and not the good kind. It almost felt like they didn’t actually love each other as people.

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